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Methadone Addiction: New York Empire: Methadone Clinics Find No Love in Chic Neighborhoods – International Business Times

Methadone Addiction: New York Empire: Methadone Clinics Find No Love in Chic Neighborhoods – International Business Times


International Business Times
New York Empire: Methadone Clinics Find No Love in Chic Neighborhoods
International Business Times
While commuters queue at their local Starbucks for their first cardboard growler of coffee, addicts often don't have to leave the city's choicest neighborhoods to get their daily paper mouthwash cup of hot-pink methadone. Six mornings a week,

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Methadone Addiction: Residents say Brooklyn methadone clinics created a ‘drug bazaar,’ authorities … – New York Daily News


New York Daily News
Residents say Brooklyn methadone clinics created a 'drug bazaar,' authorities
New York Daily News
Passersby near building housing methadone clinic in Clinton Hill have been harassed by patients who hustle drugs. Authorities are targeting two Brooklyn methadone clinics where addicts hustle drugs on the street after treatment.
Two Brooklyn Methadone Clinics To Monitor Nearby CrimeNY1
New Rules Aim To Make Methadone Clinics Better NeighborsPatch.com

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Methadone Addiction: CAMH Releases Buprenorphine Guideline for Treatment of Opioid Dependence – CNW.ca

Methadone Addiction: CAMH Releases Buprenorphine Guideline for treatment of Opioid Dependence – CNW.ca
TORONTO, Nov. 3, 2011 /CNW/ – A new clinical guideline released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will help enable health care practitioners to provide buprenorphine (combined with naloxone), the most effective medication since methadone to …
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Methadone Addiction: Human error behind drug overdoses – The Canberra Times
I dare say the odds are you’re occasionally going to get a mistake just from the sheer numbers [on methadone],” he said. Staff specialist in addiction medicine at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, Robert Graham, said overdoses and medication errors were a …
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Child Neglect Cases Harder to Handle – Tucson Citizen

Methadone Addiction: Child neglect cases harder to handle – Tucson Citizen

Child neglect cases harder to handle
Tucson Citizen
Prosecutors offered residential drug treatment to the mother and Caden was born, addicted to methadone, five months later. Power, 25, and her children are now on their own. It took nearly three years, commitment from caseworkers and counselors,

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Methadone Addiction: Dangerous Drugs: They are sold in our pharmacies, not on our street corners – Daily Mail (blog)

Dangerous Drugs: They are sold in our pharmacies, not on our street corners
Daily Mail (blog)
It is estimated that fifty percent of people taking Methadone also take daily – daily – heroin and many of the rest also use it occasionally. There is a black market in Methadone. Some addicts prefer it to heroin. There is even a black market in 'spit'

Service Helps Drug Addicts Get Clean – Shields Gazette

Methadone Addiction: Service helps drug addicts get clean – Shields Gazette


Shields Gazette
Service helps drug addicts get clean
Shields Gazette
Alcohol detox is offered to clients in their own home or at the purpose-built Huntercombe Centre in Sunderland, which also offers methadone/subutex stabilistion for drug addicts. The heroin substitutes can also be prescribed by the client's GP,

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Methadone Addiction: CAMH Releases Buprenorphine Guideline for treatment of Opioid Dependence – DigitalJournal.com (press release)

CAMH Releases Buprenorphine Guideline for treatment of Opioid Dependence
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
3, 2011 /CNW/ – A new clinical guideline released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will help enable health care practitioners to provide buprenorphine (combined with naloxone), the most effective medication since methadone to treat the

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Methadone Addiction: Painkiller overdoses skyrocket – knox.VillageSoup.com

Methadone Addiction: Painkiller ‘Epidemic’ Deepens in US – PBS NewsHour

Methadone Addiction: Painkiller ‘Epidemic’ Deepens in US – PBS NewsHour


USA Today
Painkiller 'Epidemic' Deepens in US
PBS NewsHour
Overdoses from prescription painkillers — including oxycodone, methadone and hydrocodone (Vicodin) — killed 15000 people last year. That's more than 40 per day. In 2010, 1 in 20 people in the United States (age 12 or older) reported using
Deaths From Abuse of Painkillers Triple in a Decade: CDCMSN Health & Fitness
CDC: Epidemic of Prescription Painkiller OverdosesConsumer Affairs

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Methadone Addiction: New Details About Toddler Death Make Us More Sympathetic to the Boyfriend – The Stir


The Stir
New Details About Toddler Death Make Us More Sympathetic to the Boyfriend
The Stir
One question I've had ever since the story came out is: Where was the toddler's mother, and why did she leave her baby with a man who was possibly recovering from a heroin addiction, as implied by his methadone treatment? In the comments section,

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Methadone Addiction: Lightlake Therapeutics Inc. Announces Fiscal 2011 Year End Results – MarketWatch (Press Release)

Methadone Addiction: Lightlake Therapeutics Inc. Announces Fiscal 2011 Year End Results – MarketWatch (press release)

Lightlake Therapeutics Inc. Announces Fiscal 2011 Year End Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Lightlake has patents that will enable the Company to widen its product pipeline to address patients with addictions to opioid painkillers, methadone, cocaine and amphetamine. Additionally, Lightlake is also looking to develop a treatment for opioid

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Methadone Addiction: Drug dealer sold his extra pain pills while supporting habit – Waterloo Record

Drug dealer sold his extra pain pills while supporting habit
Waterloo Record
Cathers was caught with 275 of the powerful painkillers after getting arrested near a methadone clinic on Park Street in Kitchener for driving without a licence in March. Although he had a legal prescription for the drugs, he acknowledged he had more

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